Burn Down the Night (Everything I Left Unsaid #3)- Molly O'Keefe Page 0,119
heat and noise of the party.
I found Dylan right away, leaning against the edge of the counter, a beer in his hand. He wasn’t self-conscious about his scars, not with this crowd. Everyone here had long since stopped seeing them when they looked at him.
And like we were tuned to the same frequency, a moment after I saw him, he straightened up from the counter and looked toward the doorway.
His happiness projected out of him, a high beam in fog. And mine probably did the same because Olivia laughed and stroked my chest.
Dylan made his excuses to the guys he was talking with and crossed the room to meet us.
“Max,” he said, with a smile that pulled the scars that covered one side of his face taut.
“Dylan. You’re not wearing a jacket.”
“Fuck no, Annie tried.”
I shot Olivia a disgruntled look and shrugged out of my coat.
“Glad you could make it,” Dylan said.
“Like we’d miss it,” I said, curling my arm around Olivia’s shoulder. Annie was there. So was Pops and Jennifer.
It was our second chance made real. Filled with love and people and a future we were working on, side by side.
Dylan went to get us a few drinks and Olivia hugged me, burying her face against my chest like she felt it, too.
We’d burned down the night and our old lives with it.
But we’d built something so much better in its place.
“I love you,” she said.
“I love you, too.”
For all of you out there figuring out your Plan B
Acknowledgments
Never has a book treated me like this one. Max and Joan dragged me to some wild and dark places. I—as ever—owe a huge debt of gratitude to the writers in my corner. The numbers seem to grow every year and for that I am so grateful. Thank you to: Ripley Vaughn, Maureen McGowan, Simone St. James, Stephanie Doyle, Shari Slade, Carolyn Crane, Megan Mulry, and Skye Warren.
Pam Hopkins, who is a calm voice of reason in the face of my Howler Monkey impression.
Shauna Summers, Gina Wachtel, Ashleigh Heaton, Erika Seyfried, and the entire team at Loveswept. Thank you for your excitement and fabulous ideas.
My family—Adam and the kids. You fill my heart and my life. Everything works because of you guys.
And finally—the reviewers, bloggers, and readers who have loved this series and talked about this series. Your enthusiasm means the world to me. Thank you.
BY M. O’KEEFE
Everything I Left Unsaid
The Truth About Him
Burn Down the Night
The Boys of Bishop Novels
Wild Child
Never Been Kissed
Between the Sheets
Indecent Proposal
Crooked Creek Ranch Novels
Can’t Buy Me Love
Can’t Hurry Love
Crazy Thing Called Love
About the Author
M. O’KEEFE can remember the exact moment her love of romance began: in seventh grade, when Mrs. Nelson handed her the worn paperback copy of The Thorn Birds. It wasn’t long before she was filling up notebooks with her own story ideas, featuring girls with glasses and talking cats. Writing as Molly O’Keefe, she has won two RITA awards and three RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards. She lives in Toronto, Canada, with her husband, two kids, and the largest heap of dirty laundry in North America. When she’s not writing, she’s imagining what she would say if she ever got stuck in an elevator with Bruce Springsteen.
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